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Church's Other Half

Women in the Church

  • Hardback
  • 256 pages
  • Publisher: Scm Press
  • 15.5 x 23.4 x 2.3 cm

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For Christians interested in women's church history

Explores the exclusion of women from church leadership

You will gain insight into women's contributions to faith

This book highlights the vital role of women in the church's history and leadership.

Women have always constituted at least half of the church's membership, but for almost 2,000 years were excluded from any significant part in its leadership. After the example of Jesus, the earliest Christian communities were wholly inclusive in their organisation, but a patriarchal model derived from the pattern of the secular Greco-Roman societies was soon adopted. This restricted women to subordinate roles from which the struggle to escape continues.However, there were always some courageous and often highly-talented women who sought to exercise a Christian ministry within, but usually outside, the church's structures. Focusing on the Church in England, Trevor Beeson provides short lives of some of these. Among them are several well-known historical figures such as Hilda of Whitby, but the majority of the book celebrates the accomplishments of women in the last two hundred years in religious life, social reform, literature and theology, and above all in the ordained ministry.More than 5000 women have been ordained to the priesthood so far, and in 2012 the consecration of women as bishops is likely to be authorised.Trevor Beeson reflects on the long-term consequences of a momentous change in the church's life which should result in the release all its members from the restrictions of a still largely male-orientated faith community.
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  • Title

    Church's Other Half

  • Author

    Trevor Beeson

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Scm Press

  • Published

    November 2011

  • Weight

    559g

  • Page Count

    256

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 23.4 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780334043829

  • ISBN-10

    0334043824

  • Eden Code

    3978935

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